I have been using the 'byPrereleaseNumber' versioning strategy in my Azure DevOps pipelines for a project's libraries and we are now moving a number of the libraries to 1.0Investigating the options available I came accross the 'Counters' feature categorised under 'Expressions' within the Azure DevOp…
I try to keep up with the pace of change on the Azure ecosystem, however missed one change that left me stumped for several hours yesterday.I was deploying a quick and dirty Web App to Azure App Service that required a periodic file drop from an Azure CI/CD pipeline.The plan was to configure the Web…
When developing API Controllers in ASP.NET Core you may run into the following error when trying to use multiple HTTP verbs of the same type in a controller (or in a base controller if using inheritence) AmbiguousMatchException: The request matched multiple endpoints. Normally the solution is to mod…
In light of the recent "Collection #1" Data Breach containing a whopping 2,692,818,238 rows of data that was recently uploaded to the 'Have I been Pwned' site by Troy Hunt, I wanted to update my Password Manager of choice 'KeePass' to check all of my existing and new passwords against passwords foun…
I have been working with the 'Always Encrypted' feature within SQL Server with a legacy project running the full .Net Framework (4.7) along with Entity Framework 6. I had been exploring the different SQL Server Encryption options available, firstly looking at TDE (Transparent Data Encryption), howev…
I periodically have to dip into an ASP.NET Web Forms application and supporting libraries and tests running on the full fat .NET Framework however 99% of my current development work is using the new ASP.NET Core and my current preference is using the CLI tools along with VSCode. The Web Forms projec…
In this final post in our Zero to Azure Hero series I will cover some tips and tricks such as adding status badges to your GitHub ReadMe page and creating an Azure DevOps dashboard to monitor your Pipelines.To add an Azure Build Pipeline status badge to our GitHub page, from the Azure DevOps portal,…
In the previous post we built out our Web Application using ASP.NET Blazor, we are now going to push this to a new GitHub repository then setup an Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline to build and deploy direct to Azure App Services. Create a new repository on GitHub for your project, then run the commands t…
In the previous posts in this series we have developed our Twitter Sentiment Analysis library using Azure Cognitive Services, in this post we will build a Web Application with ASP.NET Core Blazor to use our library. Blazor is an experimental .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in th…
In this post on we will build upon the work covered in the previous posts in this series to build in Sentiment Analysis functionality to our library using Azure Cognitive Services From the official site, Azure Cognitive Services enables you to 'Infuse your apps, websites and bots with intelligent al…
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